Quarantine (Animals) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1983 No. 2991

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Quarantine (Animals) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Quarantine Act 1908.

Dated 8 December 1983.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’ Command,

 (sgd) Noal Blewett

Minister of State for Health

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Repeal of regulation 32

1. Regulation 32 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is repealed.

Period of detention in quarantine station or in quarantine

2. Regulation 35 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulation (3).

3. After regulation 38 of the Quarantine (Animals) Regulations the following regulation is inserted:

Bees of the specks Apis mellifera(L.) from Canada, New Zealand or the United States of America

“39. (1) A queen bee imported into Australia from New Zealand shall not be released from quarantine unless an examination of her escort bees establishes that her release would not spread disease in Australia.

“(2) The larvae of a queen bee that has been imported into Australia from Canada or the United States of America shall not be released from quarantine unless an examination of the queen bee, her escort bees and her larvae establishes that the release of the larvae would not spread disease in Australia.

“(3) Before conducting an examination referred to in sub-regulation (2) a Chief Quarantine Officer may place the queen bee with escort bees other than imported escort bees.

 

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“(4) In this regulation, “bee” means a bee of the species Apis mellifera (L.).”.

NOTES

1.Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 13 December 1983.

2. Statutory Rules 1935 No, 71 as amended to date. For previous amendments see Note 2 to Statutory Rules 1983 No. 70 and see also Statutory Rules Nos. 70 and 200.

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